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Tuesday, September 28, 2004

Cyberculture, Black People Social Networking Map: Black Bloggers
(Formica blog)
I drew relationships between myself and anyone with whom I've communicated, and between those persons who seem to have a relationship ? in real life or online? as evidenced by back linking and/or comments left on weblogs. I realize that the Black blogosphere is vast (and continues to expand daily); I also know that there are a few key people (Huny, anyone?) who were left off the map. As time and my obsession permits, I'd like to draw a larger, more detailed map.

(I'm always late to these things, colored people's time, ya know. Cecily has started something that I've wanted to do for a while. It's a social networking map of some bloggers who just happen to be Black. It doesn't mean that they only talk about Black issues, or even hang out together, but it does represent one way to group bloggers along certain lines. Maybe arbitrary, maybe not. I think not. And I think it's important because by publishing on the Web what we're all actually doing is building is a web of knowledge, opinion, and perhaps even influence. Being able to see the bigger picture of is important to understanding the dimensions of that web. I hope Cecily doesn't mind if I take her work and run with it at some point in the future. )

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Cyberculture, Politics The Age of iPod Politics
(Time.com)
The problem is, American politics are un-American. At least, they no longer fit the a la carte ethos of iPod America. You and I can't each have our own President. We can't have our own Supreme Court or our own assault-weapons law. If you don't like the USA Patriot Act, you can't delete it from your digital playlist.

(My take: eventually, one ring will rule them all. This has been foretold, somewhere. )

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